Almost free

3) the project

Hannah's House at the top

I had to make sure that I heard Mr.B right. I thought I heard that me and Jacob were partners in a project that all had to be done outside of class!?!

 When I asked him again he still said the same thing. At that point my heart dropped to the bottom of my feet. I started thinking of all the valid excuses I had to give both Mr.B and Jacob. 

After careful thought and when I say careful I mean FBI getting a death threat on the president and protecting the fucking president careful. No body can know about my dad. He would legitimately kill me, then he would probably hang me up like a punching bag and continue to hurt me even though I would be dead. Anyway I found out the perfect excuse to give to them. That I have family coming over and I hardly ever see them so it seems unfair to have to do work while they are here for the month. After I told that to Mr.B he said," Ok,  but just so you know this is half your grade for the semester." 

After hearing that my heart dropped to the bottom of my feet and turned into a puddle on the floor. My grades are super important to me, they are the only hope I have to be able to be ok and find a decent job after I run away. So me being the stupid person I am said," It's ok i'm sure that they will understand." 

"Good," said Mr. B, "I expect greatness from you Hannah." 

Then I started walking out of class, but I felt arms snake around my waist. I turned around ready to hit the son of  bitch, but it was Jacob. It was in my right mind to hit him, and I tried but it failed miserably, he caught my fist midair and said,"Now now that's no way to treat me now is it princess."

I knew what would happen if I fell in love with anyone and since I couldn't let that happen even though I desperately wanted to be able to so that I could have a somewhat normal high school experience, but that could never happen while I was still in this town. So I said,"I'm not your princess." While pulling my arm aggressively out of his grip

Then Jacob being the little shit he is said," Someday you will be."

So me being the person that I naturally am said, " how can you be so sure maybe i already have a knight in shining armor." Then under my breath I said "you fucking creep."

"Well then I'll have to either wait or kill the motherfucker. And It's not very nice to call someone a creep" He said with a mischievous  glint in his eyes that scared me, mostly because that's the same glint that I cower away from every night fearing what it could mean. |Then at that very second was when Jacob began to walk closer to me. On instinct I closed my eyes and waited for the pain to come because I know that if I tried to fight back or run I would only get hurt more. After waiting about a minute or so and not feeling any pain coursing my veins, I looked up and saw that Jacob was looking at me with a concerned look in his eyes. It was so confusing it looked as though he was contemplating talking to me, and possibly comforting me.

So when I heard the bell ring signaling that class was over I bolted out the door, ran to my locker and went to my next class art. Which to my dismay Jacob was in and my next class and the one after that. The only two classes that I didn't have with him were history and choir. Now I know what you are thinking. Why didn't you just skip the rest of the day? To answer that dumb question, my dad is home and I would prefer to prolong the inevitable. So I sucked it up sat in the back of my classes, away from Jacob, and went on with my day. Until the bell of death chimed, signaling the time to go home, to the hell hole.           

But I decided against going home. Instead I decided to go to Sarah's knowing that she would help me with this debacle I was facing. The only problem was my dad. If he saw me walking to Sarah's house, there would be hell to pay. So I devised a plan, I would check around the corner of the block to see if his beat up, rusty, green truck was there, if not I would run to Sarah's like a madman or madwoman in this case.

So I looked around the corner to the block and the coast was clear his truck was not in sight. So I ran down the street as quick as humanly possible. The only problem was the truck that I saw parked outside of Sarah's house was his. When I saw that he was talking to Sarah's mom, Amber, I used that opportunity to run to their backyard and knock on Sarah's window. When I heard a tree twig snap I halted and slowly turned to see who it was. Much to my dismay it was my dad. Who said, "Never mind Amber I found her," saying it in a loving and caring fatherly voice, but I could see right through all that bull shit he was putting out. Once we were home there was going to be hell to pay.

He whispered into my ear ever so quiet, so quiet that I could barely hear him, but I could, sadly.

"Ok you little slut, you're going to come home nice and quietly then maybe i'll go easy on you. If you try to run you'll just make it much, much worse."

I nodded my head, with fear flashing in my eyes. I knew he could see my fear for him and what he could do to me. He smiled at my fear in a way that was sickening, as if he was enjoying see me squirm. I went and sat in the truck while he talked to Amber. About ten minutes later he sat in the drivers seat, looked at me and said, "The next time you try to pull some stunt like that there will be even an even more severe punishment."

He said it like he was going easy on me all those other times he's "punished" me. If he was going easy all those other times I wouldn't be preparing to run away from the devil spawn himself, or the fact that I couldn't get any x-rays taken for fear that they would see all the bruising. The one thing that my dad is definitely not afraid to do is kill me. Sometimes I wonder why he hasn't done that already.

Then I heard the most terrifying words known. "We're home."